Today was predicted to be the hottest day in the history of Switzerland. Well it certainly didn't let us down with temperatures soaring to an estimated 38 degrees. Corinne's plan was to walk in the shade so we got onto a bus and headed towards the Italian border to a town call Casaccia from where we set out on a leisurely walk into the surrounding forests. As we had descended some distance down the Maloja Pass, the vegetation had ...

Day 25 Today we have 274 kilometres to ride and we set off at 8am. I volunteered to be tail end charlie today. That way I could see how everyone rode and do my own thing at the back of the pack. The first 70km of todays ride was on main roads and motorways until we reached Bellagio on the shore of Lake Como. This was our coffee stop for the morning and Our embarkation point for the ferry across the lake to Menaggio. It had turned in to a very hot and humid ...

At last a rest day. Today we did absolutely nothing apart from a 20 km round trip to St. Moritz to do some shopping. This is actually nothing these days. It was very hot so we did swim a bit in the lake. We also caught up on book work and spent some time doing ...

Today, the blisters almost healed, we walked down to Surlej before heading uphill to Hannesee which is a small lake in the mountains above Chamfer. From here we followed the ridge along the side of the Corvatch until we eventually came down at Lej Staz near St. Moritz. Here we had a welcome swim as the weather was seriously warm before walking into St. Moritz and catching a bus home.